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for GOP politicians to be completely ignorant of science? You have Phil Broun, a former physician who called evolution, embryology, and the Big Bang "lies straight from the pit of Hell." It's enough to make one wonder how he reacted to bacteria who have evolved antibiotic resistance and/or cared for any potentially pregnant patients, given that an understanding of embryology is rather integral to caring for such patients. Then there's Ralph Hall, who claimed that climate scientists are essentially committing fraud for grant money, Dana Rohrabacher once claiming that dinosaur farts caused climate cycles in the past, and Phil Gingrey's claims that women's bodies can resist pregnancy arising from rape because a woman's body shuts down ovulation if she is stressed out. Gingrey is a former OB/GYN. Who believes that a woman's body can magically shut down its reproductive system if subjected to the stress of being raped.... My irony meter just broke. …